TYPE OF MOVEMENT RESULTING

BOUNDARY PROCESS OR
FEATURE
Divergent Plate Two plates separate. divergent boundary occurs when
two tectonic plates move away
Boundary from each other. Along these
boundaries, earthquakes are
common and magma (molten
rock) rises from the Earth's mantle
to the surface, solidifying to
create new oceanic crust. When
two plates come together, it is
known as a convergent boundary.
An oceanic and a continental plates
Convergent Plate collide.
A convergent boundary (also
known as a destructive boundary)
Boundary is an area on Earth where two or
more lithospheric plates collide.
One plate eventually slides
beneath the other causing a
process known as subduction.
Subduction initiates when this
dense crust converges with the
less dense crust.
Two plates slide horizontally past
Transform Plate one another along a transform plate
Divergent boundaries where new
crust is generated as the plates
Boundary boundary. pull away from each other.
(ocean to continent) Convergent boundaries where
crust is destroyed as one plate
dives under another. Transform
boundaries -- where crust is
neither produced nor destroyed
as the plates slide horizontally
past each other.
An continental and another
Convergent Plate continental plates collide.
A convergent boundary (also
known as a destructive boundary)
Boundary is an area on Earth where two or
(continent to more lithospheric plates collide.
One plate eventually slides
continent) beneath the other causing a
process known as subduction.
Subduction initiates when this
dense crust converges with the
less dense crust.